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Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 January 1921
- Died
- 4 February 1995
- Place of birth
- Fort Worth
- Place of death
- Locarno
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Patricia
- Family name
- Highsmith
- Movement
- modernist literature
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, screenwriter, comics writer, painter, literary scholar
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Officer of Arts and Letters, Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, Prix de l'Humour noir, Lucien Barrière Literary Award
- archives at
- Swiss Literary Archives
- birth name
- Mary Patricia Plangman
- cause of death
- aplastic anemia, lung cancer
- described by source
- American Women Writers, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.)
- educated at
- Barnard College
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- anorexia nervosa
- name in native language
- Patricia Highsmith
- nominated for
- Edgar Awards, Edgar Awards, Gold Dagger, Gold Dagger, Gold Dagger
- notable work
- Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Blunderer, Deep Water, A Game for the Living, This Sweet Sickness, The Cry of the Owl, The Two Faces of January, The Glass Cell, A Suspension of Mercy, Those Who Walk Away, The Tremor of Forgery
- place of burial
- cimitero di Tegna
- pseudonym
- Claire Morgan
- residence
- New York City
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- start of work period
- 1950
- topic has template
- Template:Patricia Highsmith
- topic's main category
- Category:Patricia Highsmith
- writing language
- English
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